Light Is All Around Us: An Engaging Visual STEM Book About the Sun and Shadows for Kids (Ages 4-8) (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

Read and find out about light in this colorfully illustrated
nonfiction picture book.

Light is all around you! It comes in many forms: Light from the
sun brightens our day, firelight flickers in the night, electric lights fill
our homes—and some animals even make the sea glow.

With lively illustrations and diagrams and clear, engaging text,
this Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out picture book is an engaging look into the
many ways that light brightens our world.

Now rebranded with a new cover look, this book features rich
vocabulary and uses simple, fun diagrams to clearly explain concepts like light
speed. This book also includes a find out more section with activities that
show why plants need light to grow and why our shadows look different
throughout the day.

This is a clear and appealing science book for early elementary
age kids, both at home and in the classroom. Both text and artwork were vetted
for accuracy by Russell P. Leslie, Professor and Associate Director of the
Lighting Research Center at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

This is a Level 2 Let's-Read-and-Find-Out, which means the book
explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades. The 100+
titles in this leading nonfiction series are:

• hands-on
  and visual


• acclaimed
  and trusted


• great
  for classrooms

Top 10 reasons to love LRFOs:

• Entertain
  and educate at the same time


• Have
  appealing, child-centered topics


• Developmentally
  appropriate for emerging readers


• Focused;
  answering questions instead of using survey approach


• Employ
  engaging picture book quality illustrations


• Use
  simple charts and graphics to improve visual literacy skills


• Feature
  hands-on activities to engage young scientists


• Meet
  national science education standards


• Written/illustrated
  by award-winning authors/illustrators & vetted by an expert in the
  field


• Over
  130 titles in print, meeting a wide range of kids' scientific interests

Books in this series support the Common Core Learning Standards,
Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Math (STEM) standards. Let's-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books &
Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.

Wendy Pfeffer enjoyed early careers as a teacher and a nursery school director. She now devotes her time to writing and conducting workshops on creative writing for both adults and children. She is the author of the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science book Sounds All Around as well as The Gooney War and Popcorn Park Zoo. Ms. Pfeffer lives in Pennington, New Jersey.

Paul Meisel has illustrated many books for children, including Why Are the Ice Caps Melting?, Energy Makes Things Happen, and What Happens to Our Trash? in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. He lives in Newtown, Connecticut.